September 14, 2025
Holy Cross Day is a good day, apart from Good Friday, to give some thought to the cross and its place in our believing and in our lives. We take the cross for granted! Crosses are ubiquitous. Crosses are found everywhere, in unexpected places in addition to where we would most expect to find a cross. The cross is a sign of God’s power to save – a sign of love and life.
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September 7, 2025
In today’s gospel reading, Jesus warns his listeners of steep cost of following him. His parables about a preparing to build a house and preparing for battle, can help us understand that we cannot bear the steep cost on our own. But if the gospel leaves you feel the price is too high, you can find hope in trusting God, the potter, to reshape you as we learn in today’s reading from Jeremiah.
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August 24, 2025
Today’s gospel reading tells of the healing of a crippled woman on the Sabbath (Luke 13:10-17). The “leader of the synagogue” reminded the congregation of the fourth commandment, telling them bluntly, without mincing his words: “there are six days on which work ought to be done; come on those days and be cured, and not on the Sabbath day” (13:14). Who makes the rules by which God’s healing grace is set to work in a person’s life? If God be the healer, and if God longs for us to be healed of every-thing (and of any-thing) that afflicts us, then surely God is able to reach out and to heal on any day, and at any time of day, and in any place!
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August 17, 2025
Opening the door to exploring faith – the faith that draws us together in community and the faith we each claim – what is faith? And what part does faith play in our lives? It is a theme that runs through the scriptures assigned for these Sundays after Pentecost. Faith is the theme that stitches the Sunday readings together with often challenging and unsettling words and images from both Old and New Testaments.
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